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Emerging

Contemporary Readings for WritersFifth Edition ©2022 Barclay Barrios

Emerging focuses on the skills necessary for academic writing in any discipline—and offers concrete strategies for improving those skills.  Author Barclay Barrios uses an inquiry-based approach to help students understand and write about a variety of texts, while innovative assignme...

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The contemporary conversations that shape our lives

Emerging focuses on the skills necessary for academic writing in any discipline—and offers concrete strategies for improving those skills.  Author Barclay Barrios uses an inquiry-based approach to help students understand and write about a variety of texts, while innovative assignment sequences explore the important but unsettled issues that shape our lives, such as How is technology changing us?, How do we address systemic racism?, How can you make a difference in the world?, and a central question of our time, How can we get along? Thought-provoking, contemporary readings help students address those questions in meaningful ways.  Fourteen new readings and updated writing assignments keep Emerging in tune with current ideas that will challenge students to think beyond their own experiences—and beyond the classroom.

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Vivid, approachable readings explore complex, interdisciplinary ideas. Written for a general audience, the readings allow students to engage with ideas without stumbling on exclusionary language. The essays range from brief (2-3 pages) to longer (12-15 pages) than those typically found in composition readers to provide students access to the ideas that shape our world. These diverse selections—arranged alphabetically for maximum flexibility—represent cross-disciplinary work, putting students into conversations with public intellectuals including Ta-Nehisi Coates, Roxane Gay, and Sherry Turkle.

A focus on connections among readings. Emerging helps students see how ideas connect to one another, in sometimes surprising ways, through topical tags and creative assignments, making it flexible for instructors and fruitful for students.

Innovative apparatus helps students develop the critical reading and writing skills needed to bridge public and academic issues. Part One presents key skills of academic success: reading critically, synthesizing, arguing, using evidence, and revising.  Several types of questions follow each selection in Part Two, including unique assignments as analytical tools to aid in critical understanding. In Part Three, eight assignment sequences offer a variety of projects that help students work critically with multiple readings, connecting and distinguishing key ideas.

New to This Edition

Compelling new readings bring to life cutting-edge topics, including:

  • Screenwriter Hari Ziyad interrogates the intersection of their gender identity and race.
  • Marine biologist Ayana Elizabeth Johnson breaks down the need for climate action into the simplest morality.
  • Journalist Gavin Haynes examines the intra-community conflicts and moral one-upmanship of purity spirals.

New rhetorical assignments throughout the book offer instructors new options to encourage students to consider the contexts of reading selections and new entryways for diverse pedagogical approaches, while also providing students new tools to understand both the ideas of the readings and the ways in which writers shape language to particular ends.

Four new or substantially revised assignment sequences provide a convenient way to structure selected readings into a coherent course.  They  ask challenging questions to spark students’ interest and to guide them on a substantive academic project, such as:

  • How Do We Address Systemic Racism?
  • How Does Gender Shape Us, and How Do We Shape Gender?
  • How Can We Be Good Stewards of the Climate and the Environment?
  • What Does It Mean to Be Mentally Healthy in a Complex World?

“The range of topics and connections among essays is very appealing for socially minded and social-justice-oriented students.”
–Ruth Knezevich, Hamline University

“Emerging helps cultivate precisely the kind of careful, critical reading so many faculty complain students cannot do these days.”
–Michael J. Cripps, University of New England

“Emerging continues to be a trusted resource I can turn to for relevant, accessible readings, smart frameworks and creative assignment ideas.”
–Wendy W. Hinshaw, Florida Atlantic University

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Table of Contents

*New to the 5th Edition
Preface for Instructors

Part 1: Emerging as a Critical Thinker and Academic Writer
What’s Emerging?
Reading Critically
Thinking Critically
Making An Argument
    *Thinking about Audience
Using Support
Conducting Research
    *Evaluating Sources in the Era of “Fake News”
Revising, Editing, And Proofreading
*Sample Student Paper
 
Part 2: The Readings
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Making Conversation and The Primacy of Practice
*Sarah Bellamy, Performing Whiteness
Adrian Chen, Unfollow
Ta-Nehisi Coates, From Between the World and Me
Torie Rose DeGhett, The War Photo No One Would Publish
Francis Fukuyama, Human Dignity
*Yessenia Funes, Pollution Is Racial Violence
Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist
Malcolm Gladwell, Small Change
*Gavin Haynes, How Knitters Got Knotted in A Purity Spiral
*Samuel James, We’re All Fundamentalists Now
Leslie Jamison, Devil’s Bait
*Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, There’s Nothing Naïve About Moral Clarity
Maria Konnikova, The Limits of Friendship
*Hannah Landecker, Eating as Dialogue, Food as Technology
*Yi-Ling Liu, Greetings Premier, I Run a Gay Website
*Valeria Luiselli, Border
Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind
Yo-Yo Ma, Necessary Edges: Arts, Empathy, and Education
Sharon Moalem, Changing Our Genes: How Trauma, Bullying, and Royal Jelly Alter Our Genetic Destiny
*Anne Helen Petersen, I Don’t Feel Like Buying Stuff Anymore
Michael Pollan, The Animals: Practicing Complexity
*Laurence Ralph, An Open Letter to All the Future Mayors of Chicago
*Tobias Rees, From the Anthropocene to the Microbiocene
Julia Serano, Why Nice Guys Finish Last
Rhys Southan, Is Art a Waste of Time?
*Aviva Stahl, The Sexual Assault Epidemic That No One is Talking About
Sarah Stillman, Hiroshima and the Inheritance of Trauma
Sherry Turkle, The Empathy Diaries
Tomas van Houtryve, From the Eyes of a Drone
David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster
*Esmé Weijun Wang, High-Functioning
Ethan Watters, Being WEIRD: How Culture Shapes the Mind   
Wesley Yang, Paper Tigers
Kenji Yoshino, Preface and The New Civil Rights
*Hari Ziyad, My Gender Is Black

Part 3: Assignment Sequences
Sequence 1: How Is Technology Changing Us?
*Sequence 2: How Do We Address Systemic Racism?
*Sequence 3: How Does Gender Shape Us, and How Do We Shape Gender?
*Sequence 4: How Can We Be Good Stewards of the Climate and the Environment?
Sequence 5: How Can You Make a Difference in the World?
Sequence 6: What Should Be the Goal of an Education?
Sequence 7: How Can We Get Along?
*Sequence 8: What Does it Mean to Be Mentally Healthy in A Complex World?

Index of Authors and Titles

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Barclay Barrios

Barclay Barrios (PhD, Rutgers University) is the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies for the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters and Professor of English at Florida Atlantic University, where he teaches freshman composition and graduate courses in composition methodology and theory, rhetorics of the body, queer theory, and pedagogy. He is past Director of Instructional Technology at Rutgers University and serves on the board of Pedagogy. Barrios is the author of Emerging: Contemporary Readings for Writers and Intelligence: A Bedford Spotlight Reader.

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